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tine was a most pious, devoted and faithful minis~ ter of the gospel, and his labors were appreciated and resulted in great good. On 14th March, 1855, for reasons given, he tendered his resignation, which was accepted. Mr. Bethune was next settled in a congregation in Ontario, when, after a few years, his health, never very robust, gave way, and at the early age of forty years he entered into rest. He married a Miss Jones of the Island of Lewis, who, with two children, survived him.

About this time Rev. Neil McKay, a native of Earlton, N. 8., having graduated at the Free Church College, Halifax, was sent by the Home Mission Committee to the Presbytery of Prince Ed— ward Island, who on 25th July, 1855, licensed him to preach the gospel and appointed him to supply the vacant congregation of Murray Harbor. As might naturally be supposed, the good people of this charge were greatly pleased with their new preacher, and lost no unnecessary time in present- ing him with a call to become their pastor, This invitation Mr. McKay accepted, and after the nec- essary steps had been taken he was ordained and inducted into the pastoral charge of that congrega- tion on 19th September, 1855, by the Free Presby— tery of Prince Edward Island. Mr. McKay proved himself to be a faithful pastor, an able and eloquent preacher and in every way a most valuable member of Presbytery. He was an ardent advocate of the union so happily consummated in 1860 between the Free Church and the Presbyterian Church of Nova

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